Tag archives for Music
Traditional Japanese Music – The Christian Era and Tokugawa (1549-1867)
The shakuhachi is a kind of bamboo recorder with a blowing edge and four fingerholes; it has a generally appealing mellow tone. It is naturally curved, long, thick, low-pitched, and…
Traditional Japanese Music after the Meiji Restoration
After the restoration, Western music in Japan developed through two ways: the military and the educational system. From 1869 on, the Satsuma army band was trained by the British John…
Traditional Japanese Music – Buddhism to the end of the Nara Period
The coming of Buddhism brought numerous new instruments and liturgical chant; immigrants from countries such as Korea, China, South-East Asia, and India included acrobatics, instrumental concerts, and solo performances. Buddhist…
Traditional Japanese Music – Heian Period (794-1185)
Gagaku was the music performed for the nobility and upper class at Court. It's divided into three categories: original foreign music, pure Japanese music, and combinations of the two. The…
Traditional Japanese Music – Kamakura and Muromachi (1185-1573)
Buddhist musical instruments are divided into eight categories: metal, stone, silk, bamboo, leather, clay, horn,and wood. The metal instruments include, shoku (a large bell), hachi (large bronze cymbals), myo (large…
Learn to read music and how to stay in time
How often do we sit down and listen to a piece of music, and only to wish that we could play as good as that? And yet to read the…
Introduction. What is Music?
We are often talking about music, but what it really is? Just look, what various sources tells: "an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a…
Medieval European music
Medieval European music is music from the European middle ages, which is generally divided into two periods: the Ars Antiqua and the Ars Nova. Characteristics of the time are styles…
Authentic performance
The authentic performance movement is an effort on the part of musicians and scholars to perform works of classical music in ways similar to how they were performed when they…
Traditional Japanese Music – Beginnings
Some of the earliest musical devices found in Japan date back to the Yayoi period--prior to AD 250. The most import instruments found from this era are the bells, or…